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Journals and articles
Journal article

Smith J, Jones M Jr, Houghton L et al (1999) Future of health insurance. N Engl J Med
965:325329

Journal article with inclusion of issue

number (optional)

Saunders DS (1976) The biological clock of insects. Sci Am 234(2):114121

Journal article with DOI (and with page

numbers)

Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production.

J Mol Med 78:7480. doi:10.1007/s001090000086

Journal article by DOI (before issue

publication with page numbers)

Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production.

J Mol Med. doi:10.1007/s001090000086

Article in electronic journal by DOI (no

paginated version)

Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production.

Dig J Mol Med. doi:10.1007/s801090000086

Journal issue with issue editor

Smith J (ed) (1998) Rodent genes. Mod Genomics J 14(6):126233

Journal issue with no issue editor

Mod Genomics J (1998) Rodent genes. Mod Genomics J 14(6):126233

Books and chapters

Book chapter

Brown B, Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics,
3rd edn. Wiley, New York, p 234295

Book, authored

South J, Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London

Book, edited

Smith J, Brown B (eds) (2001) The demise of modern genomics. Blackwell, London

Book, also showing a translated edition

[Either edition may be listed first.]

Adorno TW (1966) Negative Dialektik. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt. English edition: Adorno TW

(1973) Negative Dialectics (trans: Ashton EB). Routledge, London

Chapter in a book in a series without

volume titles

Schmidt H (1989) Testing results. In: Hutzinger O (ed) Handbook of environmental chemistry,
vol 2E. Springer, Heidelberg, p 111

Chapter in a book in a series with volume

titles

Smith SE (1976) Neuromuscular blocking drugs in man. In: Zaimis E (ed) Neuromuscular
junction. Handbook of experimental pharmacology, vol 42. Springer, Heidelberg,
pp 593660

OnlineFirst chapter in a series (without a

volume designation but with a DOI)

Saito Y, Hyuga H (2007) Rate equation approaches to amplification of enantiomeric

excess and chiral symmetry breaking. Top Curr Chem. doi:10.1007/128_2006_108

Proceedings and conference papers

Proceedings as a book (in a series and
subseries)

Zowghi D et al (1996) A framework for reasoning about requirements in evolution. In:

Foo N, Goebel R (eds) PRICAI96: topics in artificial intelligence. 4th Pacific Rim conference
on artificial intelligence, Cairns, August 1996. Lecture notes in computer science (Lecture
notes in artificial intelligence), vol 1114. Springer, Heidelberg, p 157

Proceedings with an editor (without a

publisher)

Aaron M (1999) The future of genomics. In: Williams H (ed) Proceedings of the genomic
researchers, Boston, 1999

Proceedings without an editor (without a

publisher)

Chung S-T, Morris RL (1978) Isolation and characterization of plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid
from Streptomyces fradiae. In: Abstracts of the 3rd international symposium on the genetics
of industrial microorganisms, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 49 June 1978

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Paper presented at a conference

Chung S-T, Morris RL (1978) Isolation and characterization of plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid
from Streptomyces fradiae. Paper presented at the 3rd international symposium on the
genetics of industrial microorganisms, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 49 June 1978

Online publications
Online document

Doe J (1999) Title of subordinate document. In: The dictionary of substances and their
effects. Royal Society of Chemistry. Available via DIALOG. http://www.rsc.org/dose/title of
subordinate document. Accessed 15 Jan 1999

Online database

Healthwise Knowledgebase (1998) US Pharmacopeia, Rockville. http://www.healthwise.org.

Accessed 21 Sept 1998

Supplementary material/private
homepage

Doe J (2000) Title of supplementary material. http://www.privatehomepage.com. Accessed

22 Feb 2000

University site

Doe J (1999) Title of preprint. http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/mydata.html. Accessed 25 Dec

1999

FTP site

Doe J (1999) Trivial HTTP, RFC2169. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2169.txt. Accessed 12 Nov

1999

Organization site

ISSN International Centre (2006) The ISSN register. http://www.issn.org. Accessed 20 Feb
2007

Other
Patent. Name and date of patent are
optional

Norman LO (1998) Lightning rods. US Patent 4,379,752, 9 Sept 1998

Dissertation

Trent JW (1975) Experimental acute renal failure. Dissertation, University of California

Institutional author (book)

International Anatomical Nomenclature Committee (1966) Nomina anatomica. Excerpta

Medica, Amsterdam

Non-English, Latin alphabet publication

cited in an English publication

Wolf GH, Lehman P-F (1976) Atlas der Anatomie, vol 4/3, 4th edn. Fischer, Berlin

Non-Latin alphabet publication cited

in an English publication. Title of the
publication in the original alphabet and
an English translation are optional

Marikhin VY, Myasnikova LP (1977) Nadmolekulyarnaya struktura polimerov (The

supramolecular structure of polymers). Khimiya, Leningrad

In press

Major M et al (2007) Recent developments. In: Jones W (ed) Surgery today. Springer,
Dordrecht (in press)

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